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Michael Morton (born August 12, 1954) is an American who was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in a Williamson County, Texas court of the 1986 murder of his wife Christine Morton. He spent nearly 25 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence which supported his claim of innocence and pointed to the crime being committed by another ...
Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors. [2]
The jury foreman of the case at the time of conviction said "We all felt so strongly that this was justice for Christine and that we were doing the right thing." [7] After a request from co-founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck, [8] John Raley took over the case pro bono along with Nina Morrison of the Innocence Project. In February ...
A wrongfully convicted Texas man who spent 34 years in prison for a killing in the 1980s was exonerated Thursday, saying that while he couldn’t get those years back, he was happy and moving forward.
Self's trial began on May 15, 1973, and concluded on September 18, 1974. He was convicted of the first-degree murder of Shaw and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was not convicted of Johnson's murder. [8] An October 9, 1974, appeal of the case was denied. [9]
Melissa Lucio was two days away from being put to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter when an appeals court intervened in 2022. Now, a judge says Lucio never committed the ...
At the age of 14, Mr Hernadez found himself arrested for a crime he did not commit and was charged with a drive-by shooting in 2006 in Culver City that killed 16-year-old Gary Ortiz.
Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) [1] was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas when the 16-year-old student Fergeson was a visiting athlete from ...